As American Heads Spin

Days of Our Lives.

Permanently on Hiatus.

So along comes the latest daytime drama ---- the Impeachment Inquiries.

Most Americans are dismayed to see the level of corruption on display by the Republican Party and Donald J. Trump.  I'm speaking strictly of those Americans perfectly capable of separating fact from fiction.  (A little more than half of our total population.)

Here's what I am seeing:  a country in disarray and lacking credibility anywhere in the world.  And I'm seeing this because a bunch of hopelessly misinformed people voted Donald J. Trump into existence as our President.

Perhaps most interesting (to me, anyhow) is how a man (and I use the term strictly based on gender) who shows no loyalty to anyone, acts as if he's King Henry VIII, and makes up his own reality, is having his karmic output come back to him a thousandfold.  This is providence to me.....and providence to me is poetic justice, nothing more.  No bearded old guy watching over sparrows......just poetic justice. 

There's always been a little bit of a wobble as this planet spins.......and since that horribly fateful day when Donald Trump took office, we have been millimeters close to an all-out catastrophic event.  Except for one thing.  Donald J. Trump is so inept, so incompetent, that mysterious forces have conspired to take him down.

Maybe its not so mysterious.  I live in New Orleans.  I suspect there are an awful lot of dolls with pins inside our Parish lines. 

Whatever has caused this sudden shift into light from the nightmare most Americans are living under, we need to be very grateful this Thanksgiving, that this very dangerous, genuinely disturbed man pretending to run this country is definitely going down in a giant fireball.

I watched the impeachment inquiries today.  My take away is that no one is going to take a fall for Dandy Don.  No one is going to take Devin Nunes seriously as he spouts out the same, ridiculous rhetoric that  the Republican Party always seems to spout these days.  Trouble is.....no one's in the market for snake oil, and Nunes comes off as looking like a priggish little whiner who goes out to dinner far too often.  On your dime.  At Trump hotels. 

Liars always project their lies onto truthful people.  They honestly don't get that everyone isn't as big a liar as they are. 

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. 

This is a phrase which today's Republicans will never understand.  And that, alone, will save our country.

Ugly Times are Here Again

 While everyone is focused on the impeachment inquiry hearings....

The fact that the Republican Party is staging a coup to hold onto their power and replace our democracy with some distorted, archaic process of authoritarianism is going largely unnoticed.

But the sad fact is - these conservatives have had a taste of power, (which for them is like the taste of blood to a vampire bat) and they're simply not going away easily. 

The truth - we're in the midst of a coup which, if successful, will set back our country at least 100 years.

If you don't believe me, just look at the crimes being committed by the United States at our borders.

Look at our environmental devastation, and the climate change that is denied, denied, denied.

Every mass shooting that has happened during Donald Trump's reign of terror is fueled by the hate speech emanating from both him and his minions.  (Please note - no steps have been taken to reform our superbly lax and certifiably insane gun laws.)

Separating children from their parents, and being unable to reunite them because of the monumental incompetence that defines the Trump administration is a page right out of Hitler's Berlin.

We have religious leaders proclaiming God has sanctioned Donald J. Trump.   There is no separation of church and state.

Women's rights are under attack as the conservative men in this coup attempt to return us to 1950, when women knew their place and kept their mouths shut.

Gays are losing rights every single second this president is in power.  But it's not just him.  There's a game plan by the conservatives, and we'd better wake up and beat them at it real soon.

The very thing that made America such a special place is being replaced with an authoritarian nightmare.  Many of us feel powerless to stand against this because we simply do not believe it.

We'd better start believing it.